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US Army Wants Face Recognition at Base Gates
It s seeking a camera that can do the job through a rainy windshield at night.
The Army wants to make sure drivers entering bases through automated checkpoints are, in fact, who they claim to be, and is developing a new biometric camera system to assist.
The military branch issued a call on its Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, broad agency announcement a contract vehicle used for working with small businesses on phased, iterative development programs seeking early-stage design for a camera system able to pull usable images of drivers approaching checkpoints and matching those photos against a facial biometric database.